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Feb 04, 2024 from Python Learning

Slalom Skiing – Codility (Python)

The battle is over. But I don’t feel relief, lol! Mostly shellshock, I suppose 😉 So, let’s get into it. If you haven’t read the instructions for this rated “hard” exercise, you may do so here. And ...

Feb 04, 2024 from Blog by Vesa Piittinen

Two line balanced inline block

Sometimes you want to have inline elements that have two lines of text. Can you achieve that with just CSS?

Feb 03, 2024 from Mr. Money Mustache

How To Afford a House These Days

The other day, an MMM reader stopped by and left the following comment on one of my older posts about the principles of FIRE: As with every critique of our ideas, I thought about this comment for a...

Feb 01, 2024 from Darek Kay

Website themes with uBlock Origin

Creating custom website skins with the uBlock Origin ad blocker.

Jan 28, 2024 from Peralta's notes on Luis Peralta

Old School Geo Toolbox

Bringing this up as part of the blog so that it does not get lost. Back in 2020, Ed suggested that I presented at Geomob BCN, an event for geospatial enthusiasts, and that I shared some of the old ...

Jan 27, 2024 from Alejandro AR (kinduff)

A unified front for your team

The impact of a unified team in customer interactions

Jan 24, 2024 from Heitor's log

The wonders of Nix remote builders

The more I use NixOS the more interesting it gets. I now found out about remote builders and those are just awesome.

Jan 23, 2024 from micheal@ecliptik.com

DNS Guardrails with dnscrypt-proxy

Intro Over the holidays we got our two younger children HP laptops for them to do their school work on and to have a proper computer. While the schools Google Classroom login effectively adds restr...

Jan 22, 2024 from unixdigest.com

Battle testing PHP fopen, SQLite, PostgreSQL and MariaDB on FFS2, UFS, ext4, XFS and ZFS

In this article I share the results of a lab test in which I tested writing data to the filesystem directly with PHP fopen versus storing data in SQLite, PostgreSQL and MariaDB on different filesys...

Jan 21, 2024 from Remote Synthesis

The Jamstacked Newsletter has a New Home

Thanks to Cooper Press for hosting it these recent years. Look for future newsletters through CFE

Jan 18, 2024 from Remote Synthesis

TheJam.dev 2024 - A Free, 2-day Virtual WebDev Conference

We're less than a week away from the best event of the year. Ok, I'm biased, but take a look.

Jan 16, 2024 from Python Learning

Dip your toes in!

The water is *just* fine! And what water is that, you might be asking? Why, the Flood Depth exercise on Codility, of course! The exercise, designed to test your ability to manipulate arrays efficie...

Jan 16, 2024 from nutcroft

When hope and gloom unite

This is the Matrix and I am Neo. Not because I am the One — I'm not. The reason I am Neo is because I really can fly, I really can stop bullets, I really can download knowledge to my brain. The rea...

Jan 15, 2024 from ~gallant

Knowing Where To Tap

You've likely heard some variant of the morality story where someone justifies their (commercial) worth as mostly a matter of knowledge, and not just labor. A typical version is as follows - a hand...

Jan 15, 2024 from Remote Synthesis

What is Jamstack in 2024?

All good things must come to an end and so, most likely, must my annual Jamstack update. But what have we lost in the process?

Jan 14, 2024 from Peralta's notes on Luis Peralta

Poor Man's Apps Script Performance Metrics

Not so long ago, I was writing about measuring Apps Script function performance, in particular those offered as part of the environment by Google. As add-ons get more complex and we rely more on ot...

Jan 12, 2024 from Alejandro AR (kinduff)

Humble Leadership for Team Success

Consequences of ego-driven management and the benefits of adopting a more self-reflective approach

Jan 11, 2024 from Ryan Schachte's Blog

Simplifying my life with more devices

Mindfulness through smartphone reduction

Jan 10, 2024 from Outside the Asylum

An Actually Intuitive Explanation of the Oberth Effect

The Oberth effect is an aspect of orbital mechanics that has been bugging me for the better part of 5 years, and I think I may have finally figured it out.

Jan 08, 2024 from Outside the Asylum

Handling Counterfeits in a Tournament

Counterfeits are a delicate subject. People tend to have strong feelings about them, and when something goes wrong, players often get upset. I try to go over the reasoning behind the counterfeits p...